Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a very full heart I speak to you tonight. Never before has a newly crowned King been able to talk to all his peoples in their own homes on the day of his Coronation. . . . The Queen and I wish health and happiness to you all, and we do not forget at this time of celebration those who are living under the shadow of sickness. ... I cannot find words with which to thank you for your love and loyalty to the Queen and myself. ... I will only say this: that if in the coming years I can show my gratitude...
...Duke's allies were limited to Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of Kent. Only one of the royal duchesses who was royal-born, as Princess Marina of Greece, the Duchess of Kent's pre-abdication backing of Mrs. Simpson was due almost entirely to her delight in annoying her Scottish sisters-in-law, but she has frequently let it be known that she would never spend a night under the same roof with "that woman" (Wallis Warfield). At week's end news of a compromise of a sort emerged...
After the marriage of Queen Elizabeth to the then Duke of York she was raised to the rank of royal duchess by a special order signed by George V. Trying to avoid such an embarrassing situation, London wiseacres first insisted that marriage to the Duke of Windsor would make Mrs. Warfield "automatically" a royal duchess, then veered, suggested that she might be elevated to that position some time after the wedding, when public interest had died down...
...afloat." She is 263 ft., 1.612 tons, has a crew of 50, cost $1,250,000. The interior, designed by Mrs. Sopwith, contains a tiled swimming pool, gymnasium, eight guest staterooms and a hospital. When he goes "out to the States" in June, Skipper Sopwith will sail in the Queen Mary...
Raisin Day at Fresno, Calif, is a typical California fiesta. Started in 1908 by California raisin growers as a promotion scheme, Raisin Day used to be a parade with floats, a cinemactor king & queen. This was replaced after 1928 by a track & field carnival started by Fresno State College in 1927. Chief characteristic of Fresno's annual West Coast Relays turned out to be a tendency toward individual performances so extraordinary that the meet's slogan became: "Where World Records Fall." This helped to make the meet the Pacific Coast equivalent of the East's Penn Relay...